6 KABAROLE SCHOOLS ORDERED NOT TO REOPEN OVER FAILURE TO MEET SOPS

By Polite Musa

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In Kabarole

Six schools in Kabarole district will not reopen for candidate classes tomorrow Thursday after failing to meet the COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedures –SOPs issued by the Ministry of Education. 

The schools include St Julius Primary School, Smart Nursery and Primary School, Kansenene Primary School and St Felix Primary School in Kabarole district.  Others include Tooro Boarding Primary School and Fort Portal Primary School in Fort Portal City.   

Last month, the Ministry of Education and Sports issued several guidelines that all education institutions are supposed to observe before reopening for finalists and candidate classes on October 15.  

These include Foot-operated hand washing facilities, daily screening of learners and staff at the gate, social distancing of 2 meters between learners, each classroom having only 10 learners and restricting community access to schools among others.  

Patrick Rwakaikara, the Kabarole District Education Officer, Patrick Rwakaikara, the schools are in a bad state with overgrown bushes around the classrooms, lacked the hand washing facilities, did not have the temperature guns.
Rwakaikara explains that of the over 130 education institutions they inspected in the district, only four failed to meet the SOPs. He advises parents with children in these schools to find other nearby schools where they can enrol their children.    
The Kabarole Deputy Resident District Commissioner Festus Bandeeba warned schools that have not met the guidelines not to risk reopening, saying the consequences will be severe. 
In Fort Portal City, the Education Officer, Richard Alituha, says that they inspected 50 education institutions that included 27 private and government primary schools, 13 secondary schools and 10 tertiary institutions. 

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